People-to-People Contact in South Asia
by Navnita Chadha Behera, Victor Gunawardena, Shahid Kardar, Raisul Awal Mahmood
Manohar, Delhi, 2000, 143 pp., INR 270
After spending much of 2000 d ing
Saying "land to the tiller" is gender-insensitive. "Land to those who work on it" is not.
Review of AIDWA Booklets
At a time when academics, non-governmental
A Hussain who does not bother about an audience is not the Hussain we know. And, for sure, Gaja Gamini is a bomb
Review of Gaja Gamini
A brick wall
Kuano nadi, satilcri, need, shaantljaane kab hogi aachitij, laal, uddhaam, Bahut gareeb hai yeh dharti/Jahan yeh behti hai.
– Sarveshwar
Kuano river, thin, blue, calm/Whets will it spread to
Many of the 'Green' ideas that are bandied about the Himalaya environment have their origins deep within Germanic culture.
Himalaya: Life on the Edge of the World
David
The first response while reading Pinky Virani's Bitter Chocolate is: revolting!
Bitter Chocolate by Pinky Virani Penguin Books, 2000 245p INR 295
But then truth seldom is palatable.
Dragonfire by Humphrey Hawksley, Macmillan, London, 2000
Styled as India's Nostradamus, the BBC recently showcased Vimal Singh predicting a Confederation of India and Pakistan by the year 2015.
A Decade of Confrontation: Sri Lanka and India in the 1980s by John Gooneratne Stamford Lake Publication Sri Lanka, 2000
Sri Lanka's side of the story on the
Inventing Boundaries—Gender, Politics and the Partition of India Edited by Mushirul Hasan Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2000 ISBN: 019 565103 0
Pakistan came into being not simply because
The Chittagong Hill Tracts: Living in a Borderland by Willem van Schendel, Wolfgang Mey Aditya Kumar Dewan White Lotus Press, Bangkok, 2000 ISBN: 974-8434-98-2
A pictorial narrative of an unexplained
Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia by Ahmed Rashid
Yale University Press, US & UK, 2000
ISBN 0-300-08340-8
USD 27.95
How did a ragtag bunch of
Religious Minorities in Nepal Jel Lica Dastider (1995), Irala Publication INR 185 (pp.140).
Muslims of Nepal Shamima Siddiga (1993) , Gazala SIMika NPR 150 (PP•359)
An eminent Indian journalist
